Jackson County Poor Farm Building (date unknown)

Jackson County Poor Farm Building (date unknown)

Poor farms; Jackson County (Ill.); Almshouses; County homes; Institutional buildings; Social welfare institutions; Rural architecture; Southern Illinois; Carbondale (Ill.)

Photograph of a building believed to be an early structure associated with the Jackson County Poor Farm. The image depicts a two-story brick institutional building with arched windows and a central chimney. The photograph appeared in the December 11, 1985 “Today” section of the Southern Illinoisan in an article titled “Poor farm: Grim bit of history” by Grover Brinkman. The article caption described the structure as a “poor house” that once housed indigent residents of the county before the building was abandoned and later demolished. The exact date of the photograph and the precise construction phase of the building are unknown.

Brinkman, Grover

Brinkman, Grover. “Poor farm: Grim bit of history.” Southern Illinoisan, Today section, December 11, 1985.

Southern Illinoisan

1985

Image reproduced from the Southern Illinoisan, December 11, 1985. Used for educational purposes. Copyright may be held by the original publisher or photographer.

Brinkman, Grover. “Poor house: This Southern Illinois building housed a county’s indigents before it was abandoned and wrecked.” Photograph published in “Poor farm: Grim bit of history,” Southern Illinoisan, December 11, 1985. Jackson County Poor Farm Digital Exhibit, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Carbondale (Ill.)